Hook-eye.



A. G. CARL".

HOOK BYE. APPLIUATION FILED JAN. 17, 190B.

Patented Nov. 17, 1908.

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ALTON O. CARL, OF .TOPLIN, MISSOURI.

HO OK-E YE To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, ALTON C. CARL, a citizen of the United States, residing at Joplin, in the county of Jasper and State of Missouri, have invented a new and useful Improvement in HookEyes, of which the following is a specification.

My invention is an improvement in the eyes commonly used with hooks on articles of apparel, particularly on dress and shirt waists worn by women. As ordinarily attached and located, hooks and eyes lie fiat upon inner and outer sides of a garment and close to opposite edges of the same, and in engaging the hooks with the eyes, their points come in contact with the portion of the fabric directly underneath the eyes and wear and injure the same to a greater or less degree.

The object of my invention is to prevent this result, and I efiect it by providing the eyes with a guard which is interposed between them and the fabric, so that contact of the hooks with the latter is prevented.

The invention is embodied in the construction and arrangement of parts hereinafter described and illustrated in accompanying drawing, in which Figure 1 is a plan View of an eye provided with my improvement. Fig. 2 is an edge view of the same. Fig. 3 is a cross section on line 33 of Fig. 1. Fig. 4; is an enlarged longitudinal section of an eye provided with my improvement and engaged with a hook, the lapped edges of a garment to which the hook and eye are secured being shown by dotted lines.

1 indicates an eye and 2 (Fig. 4) indicates a hook, both of which are of a well known form or construction, save that the eye is bent upward at its engaging end. The eye is provided with an attachment 3 in the nature of a U-shape spring which lies between the hook 2 and fabric :0, as shown in Fig. 4. It

Specification of Letters Patent.

Application filed January 17, 1908.

Patented. Nov. 17, 1908.

Serial No. 41327 2.

is preferably formed integrally with the eye proper as an extension from one, 5, of the loops of said eye, the free end 6 resting against the opposite side, or shank, of the eye. The guard may be formed of a thin steel plate, or from a wire flattened more or less, so that the guard occupies minimum space between the eye and the fabric :0 to which the eye is secured.

It is apparent that in the operation of engaging a hook 2 with the eye 1, the guard prevents contact of hook with the fabric beneath. In other words, the point 7 of the hook bears and slides upon the guard 3 and does not touch the fabric, so that no wear or other injury of the latter results.

The U-guard always lies flat upon goods; the upward bend of the eye 1 affording all the space required for the hook 2 when engaged, and also facilitating engagement and disengagement of the same, since there is practically no friction. In brief, the flattened guard efliciently protects the fabric and always lies fiat thereon and closed against the eye and thus occupies minimum space, while the eye is so shaped as to allow the hook to be easily engaged therewith and prevents pressure of the hookon the guard while in use so that the guard is not sprung from the eye.

WVhat I claim is The improvement herein described comprising the eye having its rounded engaging end bent upward, and a spring guard attached thereto which is of U-shape and flattened, the same lying flat against the underside of the eye and its closed rounded end extended beneath the upturned end of the eye, but separated therefrom, as shown and described.

ALTON C. CARL. WVitnesses JAMES P. MEAD, LILLIAN F. Hnnnnne. 

